Phyllis Bennis

Phyllis Bennis is a <a href=http://www.tni.org/fellows/bennis.htm target=_blank>fellow</a> of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam and of the <a href=http://www.ips-dc.org/ target=_blank>Institute f

Syria: the threats, costs, claims and lives

What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and social transformation, and real regime change under way is led by people themselves. US military involvement serves only to escalate the destruction.

By Phyllis Bennis

/ 16 May 2013

Reform or die: the United Nations as second superpower

The United Nations desperately needs reform. The power relations of the global organisations structure - particularly the undemocratic Security Council - cry out for transformation. Yet the most powerful

By Phyllis Bennis

/ 16 Dec 2004